Ray all of a sudden remembered about a demon with that name he read in Tobin's Spirit Guide. Keizer was a minor demon who was known for possessing people and making them do terrible things to the point when the unfortunate host realized what they'd done, they would either go insane or commit suicide.
"Guys, we got to be careful." Ray whispered, "Keizer is one of the nastiest demons Tobin wrote about."
"Oh, so now you tell us." Peter whispered
"Yeah, how do we deal with him?" asked Winston
"I'm not sure." Ray replied.
Keizer's red eyes swept over the paranormal extermination team with a mixture of curiosity, disdain, and arrogance. His large bat-like wings cast shadows over the team.
"What do you want?" Egon asked in a calm voice.
"I want you to release my minions." Keizer replied as a fireball formed in his hand.
"Not a chance!" Peter yelled.
Keizer then grinned evilly. "Fine, I tried it the easy way. Now let's try the hard way."
A dark red aura illuminated the demon and objects began floating. Keizer then thrusted the objects at the guys, but they managed ducked. Egon and Ray began shooting at Keizer. They hooked him for a second, but Keizer was powerful enough to break free.
"Dammit!" Ray yelled in frustration.
"Try again!!" Egon yelled.
The two Ghostbusters fired again and once again lassoed Keizer with their proton streams. And once again, the demon was able to break free.
Keizer grinned, "You 2 really think you're strong enough to capture me?" he asked in a taunting voice.
"Not on their own, but with two more they can." Winston retorted as he and Peter fired their proton streams from behind. And again, Keizer broke free.
"Jeez, how do we stop this guy?!" Peter yelled.
"Turn the streams up to full power!!" Egon replied.
The guys turned the power of the streams all the way to the max. They were once again able to hook the demon and while they had him lassoed a bit longer, Keizer still managed to break free mainly due to his power
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Meanwhile outside, the crowd was still there, and they were getting worried. The Ghostbusters had been in there for almost an hour, and they still hadn't come out. Just the, Walter Peck, head of PCOC (and a major thorn in the Ghostbusters' side), arrived hearing the Ghostbusters' latest case. Peck walked up to the supervisor.
"Well, have they captured the ghosts yet?" Peck asked.
"No sir. They've been in there for almost an hour, and they still haven't come out." the supervisor replied.
"Well, they better hurry up cause I don't need another ass-chewing from the mayor about the damage they cause." the ginger man grumbled under his breath.
In the weather tower, the Ghostbusters still hadn't managed to capture Keizer, and they were getting tired. They had tried every trick up their sleeves, but yet, no success. And having the streams on at full power was draining the batteries of the proton packs faster than at normal setting. Meanwhile, Keizer himself was getting tired too. He wanted to get rid of the Ghostbusters, but he couldn't without them shooting at him. As the team was about to shoot at him again, Keizer waved his hands and a wave of energy sent the four flying back into the wall.
"You guys good?" Winston asked rubbing the back of his head.
"I've had hangovers worse than this so I'll be fine." Peter replied sarcastically.
After helping each other up, they fired their proton streams again. However, Keizer was able to dodge this time and threw a piece of fallen concrete at Ray.
"Ray, watch out!!" Peter yelled. He quickly blasted the concrete into a million pieces.
"Thanks Pete, but don't cut it so close next time!!" Ray replied.
As Keizer continued to dodge the streams and throw whatever was handy at the boys in grey, he noticed how whenever one of them was in the path of trouble, the other three would quickly try to help. Seeing them demonstrate a clear loyalty and love for each other, the demon got an evil idea. He then landed on the ground with such intensity it almost knocked the guys off their feet.
"Impressive Ghostbusters." Keizer complemented, "Your resilience knows no bounds."
"Sorry, don't take flattery from demons." Peter replied as he, Ray, Egon and Winston fired their streams again. They finally were able to hook the demon again.
"Now try doing this with just three." Keizer said with an evil grin. He grabbed Egon's proton stream and pulled the physicist towards him.
"Egon!" Ray shouted
All of a sudden, a bright light shown throughout the tower and the guys were blinded.
Outside the airport, the crowd and Peck saw the bright light from the weather tower and the crowd gasped and some people shrieked. They were worried and a little scared. It'd been over an hour and the Ghostbusters still hadn't come out yet. And Peck was running out of patience.
"What's taking them so long?" Peck grumbled.
"Calm down Mr. Peck, whatever's in there is probably very strong." the supervisor replied.
"And will probably make them cause a lot of damage..."
Back in the weather tower, the light died down and Peter, Ray and Winston opened their eyes albeit still seeing bright spots.
"You guys ok?" asked Winston.
"I'm gonna be seeing white spots for a month." Peter replied as he rubbed his eyes.
"I'm probably gonna have migraines for a month." Ray added as he pinched the bridge of his nose to combat a forming headache.
"We can worry about that later, let's just get Keizer." Winston said as he picked up his hand held proton gun.
"Wait, where's Egon?" Ray asked.
"Oh, looking for him?" Keizer asked tauntingly.
The guys looked behind them and the color drained out of their faces. Egon was standing in front of them, but he wasn't exactly himself. He had a white aura around his body and his skin was now an almost ghostly white color. His eyes were now glowing blood red like Keizer's, large black bat wings were protruding from his back and an evil grin now adorned his face.
"Didn't expect this did you?" And it was Keizer's voice that came from Egon's mouth. And when Ray held up the PKE meter Egon had dropped, it showed that Keizer's PKE reading was coming from Egon's body. Which confirmed the worst possible news.
"Oh God." Peter muttered, terrified.
"I think we gotta a bigger problem now." Winston said, his dark skin paling a bit.
Meanwhile, Keizer just stood there in Egon's body, grinning evilly at the terrified trio.
"The worst thing has happened." Ray said, his eyes wide with horror. "Egon's been possessed."
To be continued...